Jason Snyder
@jsnsndr.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at UBC. I friggin love peppers. Early 90s hip hop. Saugeen yogurt and homemade granola. Former competitive swimmer.
Vancouver does this funny thing where, as if you didn’t notice this massive tree stump, here’s a cute little pylon so you don’t trip over it. Usually they end up deteriorating and looking ugly. This lady is turning a stump into a garden, impregnating it with flowers and tomatoes.
Updated model of the perforant path to dentate gyrus. More divergent… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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🧪🧠Now available open access in Hippocampus: “The Dentate Gyrus Grows Throughout Life Despite Turnover of Developmentally-Born Neurons” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @jsnsndr.bsky.social and team
The Dentate Gyrus Grows Throughout Life Despite Turnover of Developmentally‐Born Neurons
Adult-born hippocampal neurons are highly plastic but there remains uncertainty about the magnitude of neurogenesis and its long-term functional consequences. Theoretical predictions indicate that ad....
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Jason Snyder @jsnsndr.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe dentate gyrus grows throughout life despite turnover of developmentally-born neurons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Canadian little leaguers (with no filter) in an Arizona restaurant celebrating the Venezuela win over the USA in the world baseball classic. Locals are baffled.
Excited to share my postdoc work is out in @natneuro.nature.com today! We examined how the brain enables social groups to collectively coordinate their behavior in the face of environmental challenge ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️ : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cortical regulation of collective social dynamics during environmental challenge - Nature Neuroscience
Raam, Li, Gu and colleagues identify neural mechanisms underlying group huddling in mice during cold exposure. They find that the prefrontal cortex encodes decisions to huddle and that silencing neura...
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Current standards for statistical rigor are a joke. In this high IF pub, purple and black are claimed to be different at 9 and 1 but...what does P=0.0468 even refer to? And is a posthoc result of p=0.07 good enough?
Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...
The dentate gyrus grows throughout life despite turnover of developmentally-born neurons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
When people ask me what’s the best part of my job I tell them it’s making graphical abstracts.
I got a book from the library (for the first time in about 25 years. vt.tiktok.com/ZSa8d74jP/
Got manuscript reviews back in 5 weeks!!! From 3 reviewers and over the holidays no less. So fast that upon seeing the email in my inbox I assumed it was rejected outright. But only minor revisions. I’m flabbergasted. Good things can happen.
Our latest: A mouse model of early sporadic tau pathology induces neurogenic plasticity in the hippocampus journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
As a behavioral neuroscientist one of my most proud accomplishments is seeing my teenage son wash the dishes, unprompted.
Still beta-testing the app that helps people plan science, make it super clear, design their todos, and write a first version of the paper. Feeling overwhelmed by the countless aspects of doing science? Try this (for free): planyourscience.com
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Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Peer Review 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026! @ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
Didn’t thin my carrot seedlings this year. K winner takes all for carrots.
Pepper of the day: Zou Pi. This one will go by the sidewalk next year for passerbys to enjoy.
